Former WWE champion turned best-selling author Mick Foley is in negotiations with CBS to develop and star in an action series where Foley would play a Tampa Bay Police detective. The plan is for the series, should it be picked up by CBS, to be a one hour episodic series.

Foley would work with scriptwriter Teddy Tenebaum to develop the series, which would be part of the WWE's film division as WWE Films president Joel Simon as well as Vince and Linda McMahon are attached in the production end.

There will be an announcement about the project coming out this week in entertainment trade publication Variety.

Foley is in negotiations to return to the ring for WWE at Wrestlemania XX, possibly against Triple H. He most recently released fictional novel Tietam Brown and has several other books forthcoming.